Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-28

ply: but he seems 10 i'e out. Tell
him | called. will you?' p
"What is the namey"
"Wilcox-Judge Wilcox. brought
my Egyptian curios over Tor him to
look at, bet some other night will do
as well"
She saw him depart without a
thought of how he entered, and the
robbery was. of course, discovered
later on. The detectives we're instruct
ed to let everything crop to hunt
down these slick fellows, and there
was any amount of cursing and iawlng
over our i'll luck. We had every
hotel and boarding house under strict
scrutiny, but We could turn up no sus-
picious characters answering to the
description of these. The man who
sat on the sill of the bath loom window
was said to have long black whiskers
The one who passed for Judge Wilcox
had auburn burnsides, and was an
unetuous sort of a fellow. Five humid
red men could have been found in a
days hunt to answer these descriD.
tons. For many days the postofiice
was watched, strangers were dogged
about, depots guarded, and gardens
concert halls looked after. hut we made
no arrests. AT least every second
night there was fresh robbery, and
every second day the papers had op-
portunity 10 belahor us. We we're
seemingly doing all that men could
do, and our position was truly uncom-
Portable. The climax came about in
the oldest sort of way. On one of the
fashionable thoroughfares lived an old
maid-that is, she was one of a family
being, if l remember right, the man 5
sister. She was pretty we'll off. and
always had several hundred dollers in
bureau drawer in her room. She
had read about the work of the gang,
and was in a state of terror for fear
the house would be visited. One dav
brilliant idea occurred to her. She
would capture one of the mob. She
planned it that one of them would
climb up to her corner window by
means of the conductor, enter without
disturbing her, as she was sound
sleeper, and go for THAT money. What
did she do but 60 out and buy steel
trap-something big enough to hold a
fox. She got one of the servants 10
set it for her. and the open trap was
set in the top bureau .drawor, and the
chain led out through the back side
and made fast.
Two nights passed without another
depreciation. We were keeping such
sharp lookout that the fellows had
to be more fly. On the third night at
exactly quarter of II, the old maid
was aroused from her deep sleep by a
human yell of pain, and she was no
sooner on end than she saw she had
caught her man. He was down on his
knees in front of the bureau, and both
hands were fast in the trap. His first
veil was his only one. When he
found the woman was awake he calmly
observed:
"Excuse me but think Pm in the
wrong room. Please don't make any
disturbance about it.
"Who are your
"a friend of Wills, and we both
came home a little sprung. Won't
you please help me to get my hands
loose?"
There was Will about the house,
the mans own son, but he had not
been out that evening, nor was he in
the habit of drinking. Without get
ting out of bed the woman touched an
electric button, and within ten minutes
the house was aroused, and two police
men had the man in charge. The
Jaws of the trap had caught biz" about
the wrists, and he had suffered good
deal of pain. He was the Judge VIII
cox chap. burnsides, JUNCTION and all.
When taken to the station his whisk-
ers we're found to be glued on, and ne
also had a false wig. When these
we're removed he stood forth as pert
and trim thief as you would wish to
overhaul. He turned out to be a
New Orleans man named Davis, and
was only 26 years old.
The capture OF Davlss partner fol-
owed swiftly, and also in a curious
wav AS train was about ready to
leave for the north, spruce young
fellow came into the baggage depart
ment at the depot to get his baggage
checked. 1t was there all right, mt
he got into a jangle with the expires
man about the change for bringing ii
down, and the depot officer finally ar
rested both. On the way to the station
the young fellow tried to bribe the Of.
ficer, and that settled him. We went
for the trunk, and when it was open,
ed every dollars worth of property
which had been stolen was found
therein. If there was third man ir
the party, which some Of us believed
he saved his bacon and got out some
other way. In the baggage of the
second man, whom we never identi
e